Inspired by a recent and ongoing debate about whether foreign direct investment (FDI) represents a blessing for or an … impediment to economic, social, and political development in FDI host countries this paper addresses two issues: Does the … living nearby. When examining two potential channels, we find no support that FDI-induced economic activity leads to more …

This paper addresses three types of geographical decoupling in foreign direct investment (FDI), i.e., challenges when … using traditional FDI data as a proxy for real economic integration between economies: (i) large bilateral asymmetries … between inward and outward FDI, (ii) the role of special purpose entities (SPEs), and (iii) the effect of moving from …

capable of investing abroad. This article analyses how TBTs imposed by both home and host countries affect inward FDI stocks … regular TBTs as indications of positive externalities and efficiency gains at home discourage outward FDI. Besides, FDI stocks …

. Then it moves to the evidence provided by data on FDI and FDI-related income flows. The issue of job creation and … destruction is discussed, based on the employment effects of FDI in host countries and on corporate restructuring data in both …. The number of cases in Hungary amounts to one fifth of the registered FDI projects. But the number of jobs transferred is …

and international sourcing strategies. Then we turn to the analysis of FDI balance of payments statistics, mainly change … 2010s revealing possible future shifts in the power relations between various parts of the world in terms of FDI and …

The paper compares three countries (Hungary, Poland and Romania) in terms of the number of greenfield FDI projects and … attracting new FDI projects and a dominance of the capital cities. Regional discrepancies between NUTS-2 regions in terms of per … directing the location choice of new FDI projects. …

half. The bilateral data consists of both aggregate macro data and company level greenfield and M&A FDI. The relatively … than substitutes. The investments from Sweden to Russia also show that FDI has been a more stable source of foreign funding … declined significantly since the global crisis in 2008, the stock of FDI has continued to increase. The paper also argues that …

regime increases worldwide FDI and raises the world interest rate. Distinguishing three groups of countries, we show that … income countries are likely to gain from increased inward FDI, whereas least developed countries lose because they receive … less FDI. Our results explain the stylized fact that a multilateral investment agreement was opposed by least developed …